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Abnormal Involuntary Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Benjamin Hugh Green
Benjamin Hugh Green*
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University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Liverpool Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8XP
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Abstract

The differential diagnosis of an athetoid arm movement in a 54-year-old lady with a psychiatric history of affective disorder was discussed. Further investigations after the conference yielded a firm diagnosis that unified both physical and mental symptoms.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 5 , November 1989 , pp. 707 - 711
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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